Apparently it was an ultimatum from Carmelo Anthony that led to Mike D’Antoni’s resignation in New York. D’Antoni made that claim in a long profile published by ESPN, which highlighted his current successful campaign in Houston but also included the following unattributed line: "Anthony said the team needed to choose between him and D'Antoni.” "I just went in and quit," D’Antoni said. This is the second time in two years D’Antoni has placed blame on Anthony for sabotaging his coaching in New York, claiming on a podcast with The Vertical last summer that players held resentment toward Jeremy Lin and he couldn’t get Anthony to move to power forward to accommodate the point guard. “So now it’s like, what are we going to do? We could see how to go and I didn’t know how to get there and with losing again and you’re trying to prod them and you’re trying to tell ‘em to play harder and all the coach’s speak and communication just like deteriorated,” D’Antoni said. - See more at: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...ltimatum-forced-mike-antoni-article-1.3150485